On 3/25/19 1:33 PM, TongZhang wrote:
Dear Kernel Developers,
We’d like to bring this up for a discussion again.
Several months ago we posted an email discussing a case where
remap_file_pages() has no security_mmap_file() check.
At that time we were told that do_mmap_pgoff() will base the new VMA permission
on the old one.
But somehow we still think the check is needed, for the reason that the
advisory could first do a
mmap() which can pass SELinux check then remap using a completely different
file or region of file,
which could possibly pose a risk.
I don't see an issue there. The incoming prot value from userspace is
required to be zero (otherwise remap_file_pages returns -EINVAL), so the
prot passed to do_mmap_pgoff() is entirely computed based on the
existing vma flags. The file is likewise obtained from the existing
vma. Any flags supplied by the caller other than MAP_NONBLOCK are
ignored. MAP_SHARED is always set in the flags passed to
do_mmap_pgoff(), and the existing vma was required to have VM_SHARED set
or remap_file_pages() would have returned -EINVAL. If it spans more
than one vma, their files and flags must match. It appears that all of
the inputs relevant to selinux_mmap_file() are necessarily the same as
they would have been when creating the original vma. The same appears
to also be true for other security modules IIUC.
Thanks,
- Tong
The original post is pasted below:
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[1.] One line summary of the problem:
Possible missing security_mmap_file() in remap_file_pages
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
We noticed remap_file_pages syscall uses do_mmap_pgoff without LSM check:
security_mmap_file().
This system call passed user controllable parameters to do_mmap_pgoff().
We think that this LSM check should be added in order to be consistent with
other cases,
for example:
in system call mmap_pgoff(), shmat(), they all have security_mmap_file() check
before calling
do_mmap_pgoff().
[3.] Keywords: LSM check
[4.] Kernel information
[4.1] Kernel Version: 4.14.61
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